On: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

[hollerith]

>It makes them universally easy to parse

Don't you mean easy to sort?

If not, what makes YYYY-MM-DD any easier to parse then MM/DD/YYYY?

[GordonS → hollerith]

I meant both, actually.

The problem with MM/DD/YYYY is that outside of the US it may be perceived as DD/MM/YYYY.

[hollerith → GordonS]

Ah you were using "parse" in the non-technical sense. Thick of me not to have considered that possibility. Thanks for the clarification.